Recognize Perspectives: Apply Cross-Cultural Understanding

• Recognize and articulate one’s own perspective on situations, events, issues and phenomena and identify the influences that shape one’s own perspective.
• Recognize and articulate the perspectives of other people, groups, or schools of thought and identify the influences that shape those perspectives.
• Analyze similarities and differences in the behaviors, attitudes and values of people from different cultures to develop an understanding of multiple cultural perspectives.
• Seek deeper understanding about situations, events, issues and phenomena by synthesizing evidence, interpretations, and implications from varied cultural perspectives.
• Articulate how different perspectives interact to influence local, regional, or global situations, events, issues, or phenomena.

Thurs., Oct. 1: Introduction to Multiple Perspectives

Introduce the GLPOs for "Investigate the World" and "Recognize Perspectives"
Self-assess current progress on spectrum of one to five

Read Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young

Read The Blind Men and the Elephant

Discuss: Why are multiple perspectives important?

Practice seeing two or more sides of the same thing with these images . . .

Mon., Oct. 5: Systematic Searching through the thicket (database vs. open web)

Use the Research Organizer
Save Organizer to wikipage
Search the NEISD databases
Conduct Internet searches with keywords (keeping out of the rabbit holes)
Initial description, prelminary tagging, and saving to Diigo

Wed., Oct. 7: Looking in your basket (investigating the material you've gathered)

Read in depth the sources you saved on Monday (bookmarked on Diigo)
As you read, highlight and annotate using sticky notes
When finished reading, write a synopis of article in description box
Refine tags (with student-generated word bank)

Fri., Oct. 9: Share Your Ideas with Your Global Neighbors

Read If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith and Shelagh Armstrong

Explore 100 People: A World Portrait

Finish the "Practice Using Your Voice" project
"I Am What I Learn" video response to Obama's speech on education
Writing for Leadership Gallery
Blog post on "If the world were a village" at TakingITGlobal

Wed., Oct. 14: DC FORUM in Library

PSAT Day, No class

Fri., Oct. 16: Fun with Wikiality and Spotting Errors

See Wikipedia Lesson

Tues., Oct. 20: National Writing Day

Participate in campus-wide celebration of the National Day on Writing
For more info, here's the
Post your writing to the Lee--ISA--NESA--STEM Gallery on the National Gallery of Writing

Thurs., Oct. 22: Field Trip to UTSA Library

Mon., Oct. 26: Watch UsNow

Watch the UsNow documentary
See the additional resources on the UsNow website
Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government, and the internet

Wed., Oct. 28: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Debrief field trip
Discuss UsNow
Futures protocol - Where are you in the research process? What is your plan for the second nine weeks?

Fri., Oct. 30: Independent Research Day

From now on, students' individual wiki pages should reflect their progress on their individual research projects
Determine your goal for today's research time; post it to your wiki page
Conduct your research
Reflect and report on what you did on your wiki page

Tues., Nov. 3: Global Perspectives

Global Proverbs: Choose one and explain why it speaks to you


TED Talk: Alisa Miller shares the news about the news


Evaluating the diversity of your sources (Tagging for perspective)
Tags should include descriptions of the types of resources: date published, source name and location (origin)
Tags should include descriptions of the author: occupation, gender, ethnicity, and age of author

Look in Diigo for similar Tags, Sites, and Groups

How can I find multiple/global perspectives in the Internet?

Search by country
Use Google translator if necessary

Additional Resources: Today's Front Pages Gallery at the Newseum
Israel to ban 'catastrophe' reference in texts, NPR, ATC, July 23 (3 min 45 sec)